California coronavirus cases spike to new daily high. 'This is the start of the Thanksgiving bump'
LOS ANGELES — California has again demolished a daily record for newly confirmed coronavirus cases, continuing a relentless onslaught of infections that has already sent more people to the hospital than at any point during the pandemic.
The state reported 34,490 new coronavirus cases Monday, a figure stratospherically higher than any daily case count, according to data compiled by the Los Angeles Times.
So large is the gap between Monday's report and the previous single-day record — set Friday, when 22,369 cases were tallied — that the difference of the two numbers, 12,121, would have ranked among California's highest before the latest surge.
The record-shattering report coincides with when officials said they
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